Medicare Federal DSH: Then, Now and Post Healthcare Reform
The original purpose for Medicare Disproportionate Share (DSH) payments was to compensate hospitals that treat a large share of low-income patients and reimburse them for their higher operating costs. Typically low-income Medicare patients tend to be sicker and are more costly than other Medicare patients with the same ...

What Measures Can Best Help Improve Application and Service Delivery?
Network complexity has made management of application delivery more challenging than ever — how can you respond?
Read The 2012 Application and Service Delivery Handbook Part 4: Planning, Management and Security, co-sponsored by Visual Network Systems.

The Trend Toward the Electronic Delivery of Patient Statements
Read on and find out what eDelivery entails and how it can help save time and money for your company.
Is eDelivery right for your company?
eDelivery is most attractive to healthcare organizations with one or more of the following situations:
– Focus on transparency and improving the patient experience both at and after the ...

Which Content Delivery Network Is Best For You? 3 1. Decentralized Content Delivery (Edge-Caching Approach) 3 2. Centralized Content Delivery Approach 5 3. Optimized Hybrid Content Delivery Approach: The Next-Generation CDN 6
Today's Internet traffic in many ways bears only a passing resemblance to the nature of Internet traffic of the last ten years. The demand for richer and more interactive ...

Improved Labor Utilization to Save Hospital $1.7 Million
The path to saving $1.7 million and a healthier organization began with these steps: Hour by hour patient utilization of the ED Adjusted nurse resulted in staffing staffing matrix and pattern modifications eliminated overtime saving $100,000/year. saving $25,000.
While this not-for-profit hospital has just over 65 licensed beds, its ...

The cost of elevator maintenance is on the rise. To anyone involved in building management, this news offers no surprises. Traditionally, a maintenance contract escalated with inflation based upon changes in the material price index and cost of labor. However, over the next five years, this equation will be significantly influenced by the cost of labor. The current agreement for the field ...

Seven Pillars of Success for Global Software Delivery Adoption
Tim Blackmon Executive VP, Global Delivery
As information technology professionals work to reshape the software delivery landscape during an economic recovery, the ability to do “more for less yesterday” has become a desirable competency for companies across all industry sectors. Organizations that survive and thrive will be ...

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